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Land Acquisition and Dispossession: Mapping the Homestead Act, 1863-1912

Year-by-year maps of homesteading claims and the dispossession of Native Americans.
Collage of maps representative of the project
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Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South 1790-2020

The maps embrace everyone —free and enslaved, from the first national census of the late 18th century to the sophisticated surveys of the early 21st century.
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Renewing Inequality

An interactive set of maps documenting the more than 300,000 families displaced by urban renewal projects between 1955 and 1966.
Redlining map for Decatur, Illinois
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Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

In the 1930s, the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major U.S. city. Explore those maps and their contexts in a brand new version of this project.
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The Forced Migration of Enslaved People

An interactive set of maps and narratives of the forced migration of approximately 850,000 enslaved people from 1810-1860.
Interactive map of the U.S. Overland Trails, 1840 to 1860, showing cross-country migration routes.
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The Overland Trails 1840-1860

An interactive map of overland trails that settlers followed on their western journeys.
Interactive map (above) and graph (below) showing the canals of the American Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, 1820 to 1860.
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Canals 1820-1890

An interactive map of U.S. canals in the first half of the 19th century.
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Foreign Born Population 1850-2010

An interactive map of immigrant populations in the United States.